exultance

Example Sentences

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Though Degas demonstrates ballet’s beauty here, he traces no exultance in her; and meanwhile, he allows us to feel kinesthetically just how each muscle is operating.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2014

And Mr. Howard’s voice rose to match the music’s crests, from a quiet, elfin murmur to a more insistent, rasp-edged tenor — and at times into a pealing falsetto that merged desperation and exultance.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012

They felt their bodies sway under the effects of acceleration and exultance filled them.

From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Tremaine, Frederick Orlin

Or the joy of death that gladdens In exultance of decay?

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Cawein, Julius Madison

And now, in open water, Tedge plunged on in fierce exultance.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison